SwapMaster (DwmPromote) and Stack reordering (was: Re: [xmonad] Newbie: Problems with Layouts and Syntax)

[John Spencer]

Hi!

> > Well - one thing I'd like to change: Instead of swapping I'd like to put
> > the current master on top of the stack;
> I had wanted this for a while too; you got me to do
> something about it.

:-)) Thanks alot - still didn't find time to learn some haskell :-(

> promote :: X ()

Just did a fast check - but it seems to do what I meant - THANKS alot!

> I would send a darcs patch, but I don’t know where it should
> go. A new module seems overkill, the name DwmPromote doesn’t
> apply to it, and renaming DwmPromote.hs to Promote.hs would
> break peoples’ setups.

Hm. I put this in my local config - by I think this is something that 
should be in XMonadContrib. I don't know about the xmonad development
policy about backwards compatibility, but it sounds more 'clean' to me
just to rename DwmPromote to Promote and add a new 'cyclePromote' or 
'pushPromote' (wheee, finding a good name is sometimes not easy :-(().

What is the 'normal' process in such a case? Make it clean and break 
configs? Or better add another module?
- john